NMSC to hold change of command tomorrow

Turner has commanded NMSC since its establishment in November 2005 from her previous flag command headquarters in Bethesda, Md.

This move marks the first time since the 1980s that two admirals have been based at NAS Jacksonville. Rear Adm. Michael Vitale, commander, Navy Region Southeast is also based at NAS Jacksonville.

NMSC is one of four echelon-3 regional commands in Navy medicine, each commanded by a flag officer. NMSC manages all of Navy medicine's environmental, population and public health; research and development; information technology; supply, logistics, purchasing and contracting; and manpower, personnel, education and training. NMSC has subordinate commands and 4,000 personnel in nine countries, 12 states and the District of Columbia.

The new Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy, Rear Adm. Thomas Cullison, will be the guest speaker.

Vinci moved to NAS Jacksonville in early November, where he will reside in base housing and command from the NMSC headquarters building located next to the Naval Hospital Jacksonville. NMSC remains a separate command from the Naval Hospital Jacksonville with no oversight.

Rear Adm. Carol Turner

Vinci, a native of Chicago, joined the Navy in 1967, serving as an enlisted dental technician at the Naval Dental School in Bethesda and at the Marine Corps Air Station in New River, N.C. Honorably discharged as a second class petty officer, he went on to graduate from William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Miss. in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in chemistry. He entered Louisiana State University School of Den-

tistry graduating in 1977 with a D.D.S. degree.

Vinci's assignments as an officer include: the Naval Regional Dental Center in Jacksonville; USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36); Naval Regional Dental Clinic, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; advanced training in operative dentistry at the University of Michigan, where he graduated with a master's degree in restorative dentistry; Naval Dental Center, Orlando; executive officer (XO) of the 3rd Dental Company in Okinawa, Japan; head of Professional Standards at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) in Washington, DC; director of the Branch Dental Clinic, Washington Navy Yard, National Naval Dental Center; XO of the Naval Dental Center, San Diego; commanding officer (CO), 1st Dental Battalion/Naval Dental Center, Camp Pendleton, Calif. and CO of Naval Dental Center, Great Lakes, Ill., where he managed the integration of the dental center with the Naval Hospital Great Lakes in January 2005.

From Great Lakes, he transferred and assumed his most recent duties as deputy, naval medical inspector general, BUMED.

Turner will reside in Vienna, Va. with her family after her retirement.